Thorny

Agree. No reason this needs to be over bUT wHo eVeN wAs tHeRe?!

It’s almost assuredly on Adams. The only caveat being if he’s a glorified yes man to Terry Particularly because we literally structured the whole time line around the kid

I’m honestly getting to this point. It’s a very well established common denominator. We’ve been historically bad since he took over outside the first few months

Someone should have asked Donny why he had Tage penalty killing in a 4-0 game, before he got hurt doing such

You really gotta stop speaking in the 3rd person Kev

I think his strategy, and he believes it, is that making the playoffs would merely be a symptom of what they are TRYING to build, which is a Cup team. It’s a subtle distinction, but I have long been formulating a theory (I’ve been musing and posting about this here for about 2 years to see if anyone agreed - none yet have, understandably) that THIS franchise cannot achieve success in that way. We are somehow marred by the tank that failed and the poisonous mindset it instilled. That festers and lingers. I think they need to not focus on deals that help the long term, that also help now, and instead prioritize deals that help right now. I think we have to have some humility, some damn RESPECT for what it takes to win in the national league, and strap up our boots and go out there and make the moves necessary to make the playoffs, now: fight, scratch, and claw to just win. Tell ourselves that winning is enough. Being respectable is enough. enough of this “we aren’t going to win the cup this year anyways.” ENOUGH of that poison. Do not put that evil on me Ricky Bobby make the playoffs. Get our Soul back i think we’ll be surprised what kind of stepping stone that allows. A much more solid base than a prospect system. We haven’t made it in so long, there’s now a magic inherent in it. If you are looking for magic, @thewookie1, there’s your monkey paw

I’m yelling and venting and whining as much (see: more) than anyone today because it’s how I truly feel (I’m just going to outright refer to Kevyn as the phoney baloney GM. I’ve never been as off-put by a Sabres Character before), but, I’m sticking to Adams getting a further year after this one before canning. It’s important for him fail on his own plan so thoroughly, in such a blindingly obvious way so that 1) the fans can understand how indisputably necessary his firing was and have closure 2) maybe the team will learn something about what utter hubris gets you. Maybe they’ll learn the need to prioritize winning, which we still have not done 3) I could just be wrong, and we are a great team next year, and Adams is a good GM and he proves it by year 5 it’s a nice round number well enough. That honestly should be KAs problem not ours. That’s his outlook, isn’t it? He cashed in 3 years. If he put himself in a position where he had to go 1 for 1, that’s the situation he willfully set up. It doesn’t take 4 years to make the playoffs. He’s the one who cashed in all his runway on years with zero expectations. Time to pay the piper

This is the world I which I choose to imagine our dialogue taking place

And if we miss the playoffs next season, Adams is fired. Fair?

We all know what option Adams is going with I really, really hope the fanbase doesn’t allow him to attribute any excuses to this season, if we don’t turn it around If we finish bottom 10 and make the pick I will resign. Prob to a fair bit of popular demand at that point. But we absolutely do not need another top 10 18 year old

@PASabreFan

Because he sees what we all do re:results he just wants to chalk it up to some mystic force, refusing to accept the problem is, obviously, much more human. He said we made “seemingly good moves”. That’s just wrong. Our offseason, at the time of the moment, was seemingly sh*t

And one doomed liver shout out my man @Buffalonill

Roll your eyes at the “doomsayers” all you want: there’s no one here under that banner merely doomlivers. NO ONE IS PROCLAIMING DOOM. We are merely endlessly living it It has already happened. When will you wrap your mind around that? Missing playoffs for the 4th straight year IS DOOM. never mind 13. I’m not an immortal elf.

Dude, read the room Ya man it’s not our fault at all monkey paw we are cursed hockey gods

Well, here’s what I think happened: Remember when taro’s posts were doing this

He tries to do a lot of things, Kevyn Adams doesn’t seem much a fan of results

That’s the funny thing. When the guy who kept VO because he thought he was good enough sees these goals, he’s going to feel vindicated, not more willing to make a deal. He’ll dig his feet in

I sort of know what you are talking about. I remember thinking about this vaguely when the Cubs finally won the World Series. A lot of teams win the World Series. To put together a drought like they did…that was something truly special in a real way that drought remains the more magical of the 2

That was a really nifty passing play in tight on Ukko

6k kinda looks like Peeta Melark

9 for us in 16 games which for a young D man is really good. I just feel like he’s always getting on the scoresheet - I probably notice it so much because it contrasts with how bad his overall play has seemed to me